Health care reimbursement rates from insurance companies and Medicare drive many of our medical decisions in the United States. Call me a liberal, but I do believe that health care is a right, not a privilege and that financial decisions should NOT play a role in the decisions about what is best for patients. However, [...]
You are scheduled for chemotherapy (Taxotere if you are being treated for prostate cancer) in a few days, so you stop eating until you complete the therapy session! This scenario could become typical in future treatment protocols. Published last week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences was a study that found that starving [...]
"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service [...]
The general belief is that lymph-node positive prostate cancer patients are not curable. However, there has been some recent studies that argue against this assumption. In a study at the Department of Radiotherapy and Radiobiology Medical School, University of Vienna, Vienna , Austria seventy-five lymph node-positive prostate cancer patients were treated by radiotherapy alone (36%) [...]
For the last few weeks Dev has been toying with what he calls a French accent. It's actually very funny coming from a five year old. When in accent mode he refers to this blog as "Afreeekin Amereeekin Dad," and he rolls the r's. He says things like "Vhat vas that?" and "Vhat eees theees?" [...]